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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
Railway Conductors.

NEW ORLEANS. May 1.-THE convention
Of the Order OF Railway Conductors sd-
journed last night. Early yesterday the
order went into executive session, so that
the greater part Of the business transacted
was necessarily Of private nature. The
following officers were elected and In-
stalled for the ensuing term: Grand chief
conductor, c. $. Wheaton, New York; as
sistant grand chief conductor, Ed 3. Co
man, OF Missouri; grand senior conductor,
A. B. Garretson, Kansas; grand junior
conductor, C. E. Weis, New York; grand
inside sentinel, W. p. Sheehan. Illinois;
grand secretary and treasurer, W. p. Dam
iels. Iowa; assistant grand secretary, o. L
Sackett, Illinois.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
,Nifro.Glycerine EXPLOSION.

Dr.rTH, Mimi, May l9.-The earthquakes
shock as first reported is now found to have
been terrific explosion Of uitro-glycerine
at Spirit Lake, eight miles from this city.
Eighty-three hundred pounds of the explo-
sive were stored in wooden building. 80
by 30 feet. Where this stood is now hole
1OO by % feet, and Is to 10 feet
deep. The largest piece Of the
building found is ten inches long.
A three-inch cast iron pipe was twisted
round a tree and bits of iron and wood were
found q mile from the spot. Every window
pane in eight houses within half mile was
broken and one house which stood 500 feet
away from the store house was completely
wrecked. No lives were lost.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
Lord LanS(iOWno.

ToRoxro, Ont, May 1S-Lord Lans-
downe, on being asked whether he was
willing to make any statement for publica-
ton in the United States, said Mr.. O'Brien
was speaking on defective information. It
was inaccurate to say that he had ever Dor.
rowed money from the British Government
in 1881 and loaned it at higher percentage
to his tenants. He denied that he had ever
been disposed tc treat his tenants harshly
and had Investigated every case Of alleged
unjust treatment and would have continued
to do SO had the Land League not inter
fered. His policy toward his tenants was
one Of moderation, though at times q con
siderable sacrifice on his own part
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

NEW York, May 1S.-An organization is
being perfected among certain capitalists
Of this city to trade in silver bullion GER
tificates, as grain and cotton certificates
are now dealt in. Mr.. Manning and his as
sociates have planned to make New York
the chief seat of the silver bullion trade, and
thus to transfer the control Of the silver
market from London to New York. Their
plan Of operation is to have silver bullion in
large quantities deposited with the West
ern National Bank or elsewhere, to issue
certificates against the bullion so deposited
and to have these certificates traded In
very much as grain and stock certificates
are.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
Shoemakcrs Shut Out.

HAvERHILL, Mass, May flowing to
o failure Of a compromise being agreed
upon last evening between the executive
knights of Labor and the Manufacturers
Association in relation to the troubles at
Chick Bros. shoe factory, forty manufac-
turing establishments closed their doors
this morning, throwing out of employment
about 1900 persons. The State Board of
Arbitration has been appealed to and hopes
are entertained Of a speedy settlement
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
Vengeance ON . Man Charged With Shoot
ing Out AnOther's Eye.

GLASGOW, KY. May 1S.-A year ago yes
terday. At Lafayette, in Metcalf County,
William Stotts shot one of William Slinker's
eyes out with pistol. The two seemed to
have become friends and rode together
nearly all Sunday night on their way to Ed
monitor, where Stotts was to be tried for the
shooting, and went to bed together at the
hotel on arriving yesterday morning. Near
four o'clock yesterday evening. while Judge
Carr was holding court, a scuft1e was heard
in a room above the circuit court room, and
suddenly shot rung out above, followed
by the fall Of a body, which rolled down
stairs and into the court room. 1t was.
Stotts. He had been shot in the back, the.
oall passing clear through his body and. as
was afterwards ascertaineA through two
partitions and some window shutters. A
young man named Ray RutleSe was found
up stairs armed with a Winchester rife
and Smith a. Wesson pistol He was in.
company with Slinker and both were ar
rested and taken before the grand jury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
GENERAL

ENGLAND proposes to issue q new coin,
called the double form, worth about 81.
THE Moderates lost eight seats in the
municipal election in Paris recently.
Count HERBERT BISMARCK was recently
guest in Dublin of the Marquis Of Lon
donderry, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
THE WEST.

JAMES MURRAY, aged fourteen, was torn to
pieces by the explosion of a box of giant
powder in the Midland tunnel, near Lead
vile. Col. recently.
THE bill raising the age of consent passed
the Michigan Senate recently without de-
bate. 1t had already passed the House,
and only needs the Governors signature to
become law. 1t fixes the age Of consent
81 fourteen years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
THE SOUTH.

GOLD in paying quantities is reported to
| have been discovered on farm in Scott
County, Ark.
The annual convention Of the Passenger
Conductors Life Insurance Company, was
held in Baltimore, Nd, on the 18th.
THE miss of bundle of wall paper tossed
| to E. L. Nicholson, a Hlllsboro Tex drug
gist, the other night, caused the breaking
of lamp and the burning Of a block Loss,
| $4,000.
The Farmers Association Of Tennessee
has adopted resolutions in favor of the
strict enforcement of the Commerce law,
especially the fourth section.
| Two convicts escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Raleigh. N. c., recently.
A BOILER explosion at Fulton, KY, re-
Gently killed three and seriously wounded
six men.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM SMITH, who for
| upwards of sixty years has been conspic-
uously identified with the affairs of VIr-
ginia as lawyer, legislator, Congressman
and Governor, serving several terms in the
United States Congress and two terms as
| chief executive. died on the 18th. Had he
| lived till September next he would have
been ninety years Of age.
THE north bound express train on the
| Missouri Pacific which left Austin, Tex.
| on the 18th, was robbed at or near Mcneil
Station, at the crossing of the Missouri
Pacific and the Austin & Northwestern
| narrow guage railways, nine miles from
Austin. The robbers numbered about if
teen. The passengers and express were
robbed and two men were reported shot,
but nothing definite was kown.
The Latham monument to the Confeder
ate dead was unveiled at Hopkinsville, KY,
on the 18th, Hon. W. c. P. Breckenridge
and Rev. DR.. Deems, of New York, deliv-
ering the addresses.
In the joint session Of the Florida Legis-
lature on the 18th the vote for United
States Senator resulted as follows: Samuel
Pasco Oemocrat), 81; Goodrich Republic
AMI, II.
LIKE PROVIDENCE, La, was visited the
other day by the heaviest storm known
there for many years. The wind came
from southeast, accompanied by rain. Many
buildings in the city and throughout the
parish were unroofed, fences and trees
were demolished, and some damage was
done to growing crops.
JUDGE PARDEE, of the United States Cir
cult Court, has decided the Georgia local
Option Law constitutional. The case will
be taken to the United States Supreme
Court.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

1t will not be an easy matter hereafter
for divorced parties to get married in
Washington. the Mecca of brides and
grooms, unless they take their c hances with
some civil officer. The Pastors Alliance,
which controls nearly all the principal min
listers of the District of Columbia, lately
adopted resolution which declares shat
no member of the alliance shall solemnize a
marriage for any person who has divorced
wife or husband still living, if such wife or
husband has been put away for any cause
after marriage, but this recommendation
shall not be held to apply to the innocent
party to divorce for the cause Of adultery
nor to divorces Of persons seeking to be
reconciled in marriage. Washingtow Spe-
eidk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

Girls all have a kind of secret CODE
You know how it is. You are introduced
to girl. She invites you to CALL You
call She invites you to a party. You 60.
She introduces you to q whole circle. That
whole circle discusses you, calmly appor
tions You to three or four; they gradually
reduce themselves to one. Then you're
lost. She wearies of you, and you get
kicked out of the circle. Well. all of those
girls have discussed every one of your
young men friends the same way. This is
what cynical girl told me. l don't know
OF my own knowledge. But talk of trades
unions and Knights of Labor! Their Or
CARNATIONS dwindle into absolute crude
ness when compared with the United Order
OF Manageable Girls.-Chicdg0 Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD OF the
treasury has decided that the employment
Of laborers residing in Canada is q viola
ton of the law against the importation Of
labor under contract.
TIE resignation of Second Lieutenant
Shaw, who duplicated one months pay &C
count nineteen times, was recently re-
ceived at the War Department, post-marked
London, England. 1t was not accepted, and
he will appear on the official register as Q
dropped deserter.
The President has approved an applica-
ton from the Secretary Of the Interior to
the War Department for detail Of cavalry
to be stationed at Cheyenne, Wyo.. to aid
the civil authorities in forbidding the fenc-
ing of the public domain. and directing the
removal of such unlawful fencing.
MINISTER MANNING has presented Presi-
dent Diaz with the request of the United
States Government for the remission Of the
death sentence Of the condemned Mexican
officers.
THE President has appointed Major j. l..
Rathbone, of California, Consul General of
the United States at Paris.
THE vacancy in the Supreme Court of the
United States caused by the death of JUS
tice Woods will not be filled until after the
assembling of the next Congress, as the
appointee must be confirmed by the United
States Senate before taking his seat.
A CHEMICAL analysis by United States
experts at Washington has demonstrated
the difficulty of distinguishing pure butter
from fine oleomargarine imitation.
THE Woman's National Industrial League
at largely attended meeting recently in
Washington endorsed the Anti-Poverty
League, of New York, and DR.. McGlynn's
course.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has issued call
for all outstanding three per cent. bonds,
amounting to about sl7,0O0,OOO. The call
will mature July l. Circulars offering to
redeem uncalled bonds of the three per
cent. loan on presentation have been re-
voked, and no more bonds will be redeemed
before maturity.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

1HE supreme court OF MASSACHUSETTS has
decided the famous Snow-Alley postal tele-
graph bond case in favor of Alley.
SIX tow boats and two barges were sunk
and three others badly damaged near
Louisiana Bend. La, the other morning.
YELLOW fever has made its appearance at
Key West, Fla, the victim being a car
penter.
IT is estimated that the Australian wheat
Surplus for expectation this year will be
6, 2UO, 900 bushels.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
May 81 showed an average increase of 4O2
compared with the corresponding week of
last year. In New York the increase
was $50
THE mills of the Reade Paper Company,
near Versailles, Conn. were burned the
other day. Loss, $4,000; insurance, ST.
CO.
THIRTEEN tenements were burned re-
Gently in Savannah, Ga. The occupants
barely escaped with their lives.
CAPTAIN L. ". COLE took a party Of
friends composed Of X. G. Stark. George
W. Mise, Marion Trip, Clarence Blood and
Fred Cole, Of Petoskey, and George A.
Freeman, of Milwaukee, and Henry Blood,
of Chicago, out for a sail on Traverse bay,
near Harbor Springs, Mich, on the I'D.
The yacht was struck by q squall and cap
sized. D. G. Stark, George w. Mise, Cap
tam Cole, Fred Cole and Marion Trip were
drowned.
A LETTER from the Pope has been pub
lished unfolding the course of Archbishop
COrrigan in the DR.. McGlynn controversy.
An attempt was made recently BY incen.
diaries to burn down st. Stephens Church,
New York. of which Rev. DR.. McGlynn
was formerly pastor.
The steamships Britannia and Celtic col
lided at sea recently, both ships being Sc
riously damaged. Three Of the Britannia
passengers were killed and a number
wounded. The vessels reached New York
afterward, although one of the Britannic's
compartments was full Of water.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-13
Tribute TO a Wife.

Robert j. Burdette publishes in
Lippincott'S paper of "reminiscences
entitled: Confessions OF Reformed
Humorist," full of the gentle pathos
which has always tempered and puri-
fed his work, and breathing the fond
est love for his dead wife to whom he
pays the following tribute in closing:
"As ] close this paper miss the low
ing collaboration that with so much
grace and delicacy would have better
prepared these pages for the reader.
The first throb of literary ambition,
my earliest and later successes, so far
as ! have been successful, whatever
words of mine men may be pleased to
remember most pleasantly, whatever
OF earnestness and high purpose there
is in my life, whatel er inspiration
ever had or have that enters into my
work and makes it more worthy of ac.
ceptance owe n the greatest best
and wisest of critics and collaborators,
loving, devoted wife. And If ever
win one Of the prizes which men some
times give to those who amuse thsm,
the wreath should not be placed on
the Jester who laughs and sings, but on
the brow of her who inspired the mirth
and the song"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-13
Lanterns in China.
THEIR USE AT NIGHT UNIVERSAL IN ALI
CHINESE TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

The streets of Chinese town are
entirely unlighted, so every one NOV
ing about carries lantern or torch,
and lantern is hung up outside of
every temple, house and shop. Con-
sequently there is an enormous trade
done in lanterns of all sizes, from the
huge balloons down to the tiny little
things no bigger than oranges. They
are made occasionally of glass, but
usslly of paper silk stretched on silk
bamboo and coated with varnish, and
the family surnames, shop sign, title of
temple, etc, are always written with
red palnt::on the body OF the lantern.
The more respected the family or shop
the more elaborate and solid lantern
and the handsomer the inscription.
Men of no respectfully, gamblers,
sharpers and such like, find that this
practice makes Identification disagree
ably easy and get over the difficulty
by carrying lanterns inscribed with
such common surnames as Smith or
Brown are with US Wang the equiva.
lent of King, is their commonest sur
name), or they use notices, which, be-
ing translated, wonld mean, "As you
like it" "Children and grandchildren
innumerable,' and so on. Lantern
carrying has become such a habit in
that country that a Chinaman never
drems of leaving home at night with,
out one. even in the brightest moon
light. .'-Je.oish Messenger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-13
Don't Work That Brain Too Hard.

In giving this advice to Americans
who know little rest, an evidently ex-
perienced physician writes to the Bos-
ton Journal that the special safeguard
is to keep the mind from dwelling on
any subject with intense and prolone-
ed anxiety. 1t will not do to "hug
sharp-pointed memories of the past. "
Some brains are specially prone to run
in "rabbit tracks of thought. The
only safety is in timely diversion of
thought. The reason why larger
percentage of people in the country be-
came insane than those who reside in
cities and large villages is because
they have 80 little to compel variety
of thought. As religious topics have
to do with the deepest interests of the
individual there is danger when the
body and mind are weakened by over
work or disease that even this impor-
tant subject may be dwelt upon too
exclusively. In conversing with a
very intelligent and refined lady who
had partially lost her mind while in
bodily illhealth by dwelling on reli-
gious subjects, the writer urged her,
after having committed herself to the
mercy of God, to lay the whole subject
of religion ION the table" till she had
strength of mind and body to think
calmly and normally. As an infams-
tion in the throat will prevent the
natural vibration of the vocal chords,
SO acute inflammation in any part of the
head prevents the mind from getting
correct and normal impressions upon
its servant, the brain. Intense and
prolonged thought begets congestion,
and chronic congestion produces dis
organization and degeneration.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-13
Old Ten.

The following is taken from an old
manuscript: January 4, l774, then
reckoned with Sc, and to balance
all our accounts and there was due him
in old ten 60 las. 3D." Please tell me
what is meant by sold ten,' sometimes,
though rarely, written old tennor?
OsMAR.
AT the commencement of the last
century, owing to generalization of sill.
yer in France, the heavy silver coins
rapidly disappeared from circulation in
Great Britain, only the light and worn
ones (often 25 per cent. below the
standard) remaining. The government
undertook to recoin the entire remain
ing and worn silver, aud to make it
full weight without raising its value.
This only facilitated its export and
rendered its circulation more difficult
at home; the real value of the coins
being so uncertain that the guinea fuc-
tuated in prIce, as measured by silver
from 2ls. 81. TO 30s 1t was therefore,
in l774, declared that silver should no
longer be tender, except by weight,
beyond f25. The amount due, as you
have stated, was to be paid without
reference to this, or in accordance with
the old tender.-E1.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-13
Korean Funerals.

A Korean funeral is strange
affair, writes a correspondent of the
New York Post. The female relatives
do not accompany the body to the
grave, and the mourning is done at the
house and at the grave, if at all, by
hired professional mourners. If the
dead man was very poor he is carried
to his grave on bier of the simplest
construction, borne by two men. The
body is shielded from sight only by a
semicylinder of paper, and it is placed
in the grave with no coffin to hinder
contact with the earth. The cost of
burial in such case is only about so.
1t is probably on account of the occupa-
tion of the hills as burial grounds, and
of the horror felt at the thought of dis
turbing graves that the Koreans are
averse to opening up the mineral
wealth lying in the mountains. As
worship is paid the spirits of the dead
at the graves, disturbing the tomb is
to them the equivalent Of a sacrilege.
1t is not unlikely, ho Sever, that before
long this feeling will give way to de-
sire to develop and get the benefit of
the resources of the country. A good
start is already made in this direction.
At the palace they are burning coal
mined in Korea-a good quality of
rather soft anthracite. We are prom
ised next year all the Korean coal we
can burn at not more than $6 a ton,
and as we now pay about $l2 for Jap
anese bituminous coal, the prospect is
a cheerful one for us. Without doubt
the government can derive large reve-
nue. from its coal mines. The coal is
at the surface, and many VEINS run into
the hills, thus doing away with any
necessity for pumping apparatus or
costly snafting. The government has
a prior claim on all hills where precious
metals or other wealth may be found.
In consequence of this, the opening of
the mines of metal aud coal will pro-
duce revenue for the government and
not merely bonanza for private indi-
viduals.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-05-13
Working in the Garden.

There is not only profit in making
garden, but pleasure. Many persons
attach no value to the labor of garden
work, especially when it affords them
mode OF healthy outdoor exercise;
but whether a garden be only q very
small plot or large area the advan
tages derived depend upon the skill,
care, aud labor of the person who has
charge of it. 1t is true that while
those who cultivate hundreds Of acres
of 'truck' can produce vegetables
much more cheaply than can those
whose plots are too small to permit of
the use OF improved implements, the
gardener who grows his vegetables for
home use secures freshness and Q ial-
ity that cannot be obtained with vege-
tables that are purchased. There is
quite a difference between the pulling
of a ripe tomatoe from the vine and
placing it on the table, and the selec..
ion of one from basket that has been
shipped over a distance of rail, and
which may have been taken from the
vine two or three days before.
But there is also another advantage
in family gardening other than the
freshness and quality of thesmall fruits
and vegetables grown, which is the
choice of varieties. Two or three
kinds of squash, several of peas, as
we'll as different varieties Of beets,
beans, berries and even melons, if
space will allow of their growth, will
permit of catering to the preferences
of every member Of the family. With
the selection of varieties come proper
care and judicious working with the
hoe, and it is in this manner that the
younger members are taught their first
lessons in practical agriculture. 1t is
said that the boy who works on the
farm where his duties call for milking
the cows, flowing the fields ard cult
waiting the crops, does not have that
fondness for farm life that is peculiar
to the one who is given a small garden
and early taught to take an interest in
it.
1t is often the case that ladies sre
benefited by light work in the garden,
especially if they are interested iu OBJ
serving the different stages of the
gi owth of plants, and when the farm
er's wife, and the children also, become
interested, the cost of the labor may be
really considered as nothing. while the
saving of doctors bills and the enjoy
ment of the garden luxuries more than
compensate for the care bestowed. If
every farmer would have garden and
take an interest in it, it would greatly
add to the comfort and enjoyment OF
farming. as well as prove very profit
able.-Phiiadelphid Record